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Re:Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives by jgriego on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:56PM (#8631491)
The headline is a little misleading; what I mostly got is that letting decisions like this be handled by automated systems creates more problems than it solves because those automations create too many biased false positives.

But the problem there isn't necessarily that there are biases encoded in the algorithms, but more likely that there are biases in the training data that the algorithms are working with.

Re:Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives by sp332 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @01:47PM (#8631801)
Why is it more likely that the data is biased than the algorithm? And isn't picking biased data just as big a problem as having biased algorithms?